Italy, 1972
96m
35mm film, colour, 1.85:1
mono, Italian
Reviewed at The EOFFTV Review
An Italian horror film directed by Sergio Martino.
Credits
Crew
Director: Sergio Martino
Luciano Martino presents a Lea Film – Roma production
Produced by: Luciano Martino
Screenplay by: Ernesto Gastaldi, Adriano Bolzoni, Sauro Scavolini
Story by: Luciano Martino, Sauro Scavolini
Adapted from The Black Cat by: E.A. Poe [real name: Edgar Allan Poe]
Director of Photography: Giancarlo Ferrando
Editor: Attilio Vincioni
Music by: Bruno Nicolai
Sound: Roberto Moreal
Costume Designer: Oscar Capponi
Make-up: Giulio Natalucci
Hairdresser: Jolanda Conti
Art Director: Giorgio Bertolini
Studio: Elios di Roma
Cast
Edwige Fenech (Floriana)
Anita Strindberg (Irina Rouvigny)
Luigi Pistilli (Oliviero Rouvigny)
Ivan Rassimov (Walter)
Angela La Vorgna
Enrica Bonaccorti
Daniela Giordano
Ermelinda De Felice
Marco Mariani
Nerina Montagnani
Carla Mancini
Bruno Boschetti
Franco Nebbia
Riccardo Salvino (Dario)
Alternative Titles
Excite Me
Eye of the Black Cat
Gently Before She Dies
Vicios prohibidos – Spanish title
Your Vice Is a Closed Room and Only I Have the Key
Your Vice Is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key
Links
Extracts included in
78/52 (2017)
Sergio Martino: The Art and Arteries of the Giallo (2011)
References
Periodicals
We Belong Dead no.29 (Autumn 2021) pp.12-13 – illustrated article (The black laboratory of John Llewellyn Probert: The black cat o'nine tales by John Llewellyn Probert)
Books
The Aurum Film Encyclopedia: Horror by Phil Hardy (ed.) p.269
Euro Gothic: Classics of Continental Horror Cinema by Jonathan Rigby pp.232
Film Review 1974-75 by F. Maurice Speed (ed) p.210
Horror and Science Fiction Films II by Donald C. Willis p.124
Reference Guide to Fantastic Films by Walt Lee p.505 – credits
